Resolved OUT OF CONTROL

Cursor jumping all over the place, moving page up and down - out of control!

 

Possible battery issues if not corded mouse. Check the mousing surface too.

 

JTee,
Do you use a mouse or the touchpad? If you use the touchpad, there are settings for adjusting the touch pressure and, on my Dell, for adjusting the effect of the palms of your hand on the touchpad while typing.
If you use a mouse, and none of the above have helped, go to mouse settings. Under pointer options, on my Dell, there is a check box for "Hide pointer while typing". I had a similar problem recently and when I unchecked that box, my problem went away. I note that you are using Vista, so the options you see may not be the same as on my Windows 10.

 

Agree to all of the the above.

If none of that helps, please tell us about your system. As Robert reveals, we don't even know if this is a notebook or PC.

Have you rebooted? If a PC, I would also recommend a "cold" reboot. By “cold”, I mean shut down the computer and flip the master power switch on the back of the power supply (if your supply has one) to off (or “0”) or unplug the power supply from the wall for about 15 seconds. Then turn the master power switch to on (or “1”) or reconnect power and boot up and see what happens. By totally removing power, you remove the +5Vsb standby voltage all ATX Form Factor power supplies are required to supply whenever the power supply is plugged into the wall and (if applicable) the master power switch is set to on. This standby voltage is distributed throughout several points on the motherboard, including RAM for faster boots and the USB ports too. This also keeps alive several features, including “wake on keyboard” and “wake on mouse”, and the network interface for “Wake on LAN” commands. A cold reboot ensures any device settings that may be held by the standby voltage are released, then reset when power is restored.

On a notebook, a "cold" reboot requires a complete shutdown of Windows, closing the lid, unplugging the charger and removing the battery for about a minute. Then reversing the steps to boot.

 

I use a touchpad, no mouse at all. I ran my security, rebooted - turned off computer altogether for several hours and the jumping around has stopped.

 

Great! Glad it is sorted out. Unless your security was way out of date, I suspect just rebooting fixed it. Being turned off for "several hours" was not necessary.

In any case, thanks for coming back and posting your followup.

 

Windows 10 OS, thanks.

 

Reboot often seems to be the great healer.

 

Well, it sure is one of those first and obvious but often overlooked things to try with just about any odd behavior.